I’ve been living alone, far from family since coming to San Francisco from Korea and I’ve encountered various people here and sometimes they cheer me up by just showing their happy and peaceful emotions. When I see their smiles and peace in their faces, I also smile and feel comfortable following their mood, which inspired me to create this series titled “Break time.” This series is about people around me taking a break. When I paint people feeling happy and relaxed I feel like I’m living that instant. By creating these paintings, I wanted to share peaceful and content moments while showing each person’s character My paintings reflect people’s emotions in their life moments, and not just depicting their exterior. I try to capture their natural life moments and put their character and humanism into my paintings by applying an appropriate color scheme and controlling the brushwork. I mostly focused on their facial expressions and gestures. Also I love to paint nature. Discovering the beauty in nature and recreating it with my brushes gives me great joy and peace. I feel blessed to be able to recreate beautiful moments and communicate with people through paintings.